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Hi there, Blake. So you ask the question “ is it possible to do this with a guitar track?” The trick with doing this beat mapping technique is adapting the technique im showing you to the material at hand. In your case, the question would be what kind of guitar track is this? Is it rhythmic playing? Fingerpicking.? Guitar pic? is the guitar keeping time? If the answer to those questions is yes, then when you look out over the course of the audio file, you should be seeing transients in your waveform. And if you see those, a beat map can be made. Start by counting the rhythm as you listen to your audio. Do you see a transient on the down beat of each bar in the waveform. Perhaps a finger picking a string as part of the material? That’d be a great place to start. As far as shortening, guitar notes is concerned, that sounds like a pretty tall order bud. In a situation like that, you’re probably looking at flex time. You might want to do a little bit of look up research on flextime, and guitar.

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Thank you kindly Tom. Grateful to bring a new perspective here to a classic problem.

Ok so as you’ve said this is a totally different scenario requiring additional techniques no featured in this video. I’ve done this many times although I’ve not made a video about it : it goes something like this. Are the tracks separated? If so, is there a rhythm line? If so, start there. Analyze that audio line for transients. Map the transient to map the same way I have in this video. Let’s keep in mind: if this is a simple 4/4 common rhythm we’re talking about, smart tempo now does a good job of mapping that all on its own.

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Westbound. Appreciating being of good use to y'all. It amazes me that with all the advancements logic ilhas made with smart tempo, this type of technique (transient beat mapping) is Still relevant due to the shortcomings of smart tempo. There will come a day when we don't need to be able to do this, but we're not quite there yet.

I couldn't agree more on all you just said,@@thejacevekexperience . Baffles me to no end as well that such vital things seem to get overlooked by their engineers or rather: Product development managers or whatever they call the role these days at the bitten fruit corp. I found it particularly savvy and smart on your part to shrink the MIDI events to basically the equivalent of transients which then get bounced to become real (audio) transients for Logic to be able to "listen" to them. I love workarounds like that and take some joy in coming up with them when I can. But you're right: We shouldn't have to be pressed to find our own solutions, it would be infinitely better if such things were present and provided already. Huh. ;-) Thanks again, I love tutorials like this one!

So at the time of the creation of this video, beat mapping, a.k.a. smart tempo was a fresh update. Now several updates later, it has gotten better. But unfortunately, anything other than 4/4 time that is inclined to be predictable and steady is more time-consuming w/smart tempo for its inaccuracies than just doing what I’m showing. For example, if I’m doing something and 6/8 time or 7/8 it’s hopeless. But I think it’s getting better all the time. Long story short yes, I do exactly what you’re talking about, but only when it’s simple. Thanks for sharing !

Hi there thank you for the kind words, smart tempo has come a long way, but it still has a long way to go, and it does not beat map intelligent dynamic music very well. So we have these techniques to back it’s up.

Wow, this is terrific feedback. Thank you so much for the kind words, I felt good making this video because I put myself in the shoes of people like yourself, looking for an answer to this problem. Seems it worked. Much respect for you.

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Thanks Jeni Jeni !

And believe it or not- this gets easier once you do it a few times. At first it a little top heavy on the learning curve, but one thing that helped me is stepping back into basic musiciansip- counting. Moving methodically and slow.

Thank you very much. Since this video, logic has made some advances with smart tempo, but unfortunately; if the music is any kind of material that is not loaded with transients in a steady common meter, it functions poorly. Being able to beat map like this can make the difference.

Hey that’s awesome Kevin. Yes, that’s all my material and piano playing. I’m live on this channel Mon through Friday. Mon wed and Fri at 9 pm eastern Tues and Thur at 8 pm eastern Thanks again.